Q. When the water table is above the base of the footing, the submerged weight ‘γ’ can be used to compute __________

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Q. Which of the following is an essential difference between Vesic’s and Hansen’s procedure?

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Q. The equation Nc = (Nq – 1) cot φ, have been adopted by ___________

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Q. Which of the following N factors has the widest range of values?

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Q. Which of the following term does not contribute to qf?

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Q. Meyerhof’s extended the analysis of plastic equilibrium of a surface footing to __________

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Q. In the Bowl’s method for finding the effect of water table, which of the following factor is used for soil in the wedge zone?

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Q. Which of the following equation has been recommended by Indian standard for finding reduction factor in water table?

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Q. The value of Nc and Nq are same for, which of the following methods?

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Q. The factor N γ(M) identifies which of the following author?

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Q. IS code recommends a bearing capacity equation, which is similar to __________

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Q. According to IS code, there are __________ types of failures of soil support beneath the foundation.

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Q. The bearing capacity equation for strip footing as given IS standard, can be modified on the basis of ___________

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Q. The value of shape factor S c, S q and S γ for circular base is _________

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Q. The depth factor can be applied to footing only when ___________

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Q. The effect of the water table is taken into account for bearing capacity in the form of ___________

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Q. If the water table is located at the depth D, then the value of W’ is taken as ___________

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Q. For cohesion less soils, having c=0 Indian standard code recommends that the bearing capacity can be calculated based on __________

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Q. The standard penetration resistance is determined at a number of selected points at intervals of __________

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Q. The ultimate bearing capacity for cohesive soil can be calculated using the equation __________

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